And indeed my father disowned me and he was actually very kind to us.  He only disowned us.  Mohammad ventured to say in the second source of authority known as the hadithe(?) or the saith(?) of Mohammad Volume 9:57 says, “If Muslim accepts another religion kill him.”  So it’s a far different cry.  Now for those who are witnessing to a Muslim who is pondering the imponderables considering eternal aspects of their life and accepting Christ as their Savior and surrendering their life to Him the person may notice of course this incredible barrier.  And they’ll have to realize the sacrifice that Muslim will make if they become a Christian.  So that number one if they say why in the world don’t you make a decision, well it’s fairly clear to Muslims why they don’t make a decision like that. Secondly when they make that decision, when they are saved, as many as 20,000 Muslims come to faith in Christ in America every year the church has got to be prepared to take them in as family.  And not even just as a second family, but as a first family because they’ll be ostracized, they’ll be disowned like I was from my father and the church has to be that loving guardian that disciples them because it’s a difficult thing, especially from a different country.  Lose everything in order to have faith in Christ.

We don’t realize that even in America there is such a thing as an underground church because many Muslims don’t want to be outed.  What will happen in the most extreme of situations someone in their family or someone in the government will call them from wherever they are from, wherever their origins are and say, “We have a relative, we have a brother and if you do not revert back to Islam we will kill him.”  And so they fear even coming out and that’s why many Muslims after they’re saved hesitate coming to church because they’re not sure if they’re going to be accepted.  They’re not sure what the ramifications will be, the consequences, the ostrization, and it’s very difficult for a Muslim though when they do get saved most of them are so souled out, most of them would witness to a tree stump if it had a soul.